What are you up to this Pi Day season? Each year is unique for me, as I seek new audiences with whom to share in the joy of our crazy number. In 2013, I spent Pi Day in Manhattan, speaking to a couple hundred middle schoolers who were on a field trip to the National […]
Greetings after a long but not-so-quiet Pi Day “off-season”! It’s been quite a year, and there are many new stories to tell about the people and particulars of Pi. I hope to impart each of them to you in greater depth here at TeachPi.org soon, but just to share a taste of what’s been happening, […]
Welcome to the new and improved TeachPi.org! Like a much-loved teddy bear, the site has been a companion to many teachers and Pi lovers for several years now, but it had been stitched together (with love) in an earlier time, and was starting to show some signs of wear and tear. So, I decided that […]
Some are calling it the Pi Day of the century. Others, more dramatically, have deemed it the only (true) Pi Day of our lives. Whatever you call it, 3.14.15 is undeniably the biggest day in the modern history of math holidays. Well, in our ten-fingered world, that is. (On that side note, this whole holiday […]
We all now have our stories of where we were, who we were with, and what kind of pie we were chewing at the Big Moment last year: 3/14/15, 9:26:53. Nothing will ever quite match the grandeur of that one. Where was I? I was in a room of 500 math majors and professors in […]
Hi, Friends in Pi! It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Another Pi Day is approaching, and while there’s not much mathematically special about 3/14/17 (except maybe for the fact that 3+14=17, but who’s counting?), this year’s holiday is apparently going to make a splash in an unexpected way. The news cycle on Pi […]
Hi, Pi pals! We’ve endured nearly a full year since our last excuse to celebrate our favorite number, and now, well, we’re back! The math-holiday highlight of the months since the last Pi Day was most certainly the “e Day of the Century,” which we hit (and many of us likely missed) on 2.7.18. The […]
Hey, Pi People! Hope you’re all geared up for a great Pi Day 2019! As for me, my Pi Day celebration started nice and early. I was a special guest at what I would consider to be one of the two biggest Pi Day celebrations on the planet: Pi Day Princeton! (I was lucky enough […]
Hi friends, It’s usually a good thing when Pi Day falls on a Saturday. The last two times this has taken place were both momentous dates in our shared history of Pi: 2015: March 14 fell on a Saturday in 2015, which, of course, marked the Pi Day of the Century (3.14.15). I’ll never […]
Saturday, March 14, 2020 feels like a very long time ago. As I’ve said before, some of my favorite Pi Days of all time have been on Saturdays, including, of course, 3.14.15, the Pi Day of the Century. So I had naturally been looking forward to it, as I’m sure you were. But alas, instead […]